Your library may offer other resources to search, beyond
your local library catalog. When you search multiple resources, the results
are displayed in a single list.

Note:You can search remote databases using keyword, phrase, exact,
advanced, or Boolean search methods. (Your library may not offer all
of these methods.) You cannot browse remote databases. The following
instructions apply to keyword searching.

1. On the search
page, Click Select Databases.

The Select Databases window opens.

2. In the Select
Databases window, check the databases you want to search. You can select
a category check box to search all the targets in that category.

3. At the bottom
of the Select Databases window, click Set Databases
to save the database selections and close the window.

The search page is displayed with the Select Databases option highlighted to indicate
you have made selections, and a Reset
option to cancel your remote databases selections. Your selections remain
in effect until you click Reset.

Note:Clicking Reset deselects
(unchecks) all databases except the local catalog, and selects the local
catalog.

4. Type the text
to search for in the Search for box.

5. Click the Search by arrow symbol, and select a search
field from the list.

6. To limit your
search, click the arrow symbol in the Limit by
box, and select an option from the list.

Note:Your Limit by selection
may not work with the databases you have chosen to search.

7. Click Go to launch the search.

Viewing Your Results

If you have selected more than one search target, the
results are displayed in a merged list. If your search included the local
library catalog, the search results list first displays results from
the local catalog. Click Add Pending Results
to add more results to the list. The number displayed at the top of the
list changes as the results are added.

As results are being added from the selected databases,
you can click Search Status to see
the progress. A status window displays the total results for each database,
the database status, the results pending, and the results retrieved.
When all the pending records have been retrieved, the search bar indicates
that all retrieved results have been added.

You can filter the search results list by database. The
Narrow your search dashboard at the
side of the page displays the Database
facets list. Click a database facet in this list to filter your results
to that database.

In the results list, the brief information for the title
displays a database icon and the source database for titles found
in remote databases.

Remote Databases in Follow-On
Searches

Your library may provide automatic follow-on searches
in specified remote resources when a search of the local library catalog
produces no results. A message and link are displayed on the “no
hits” page. You may need to click the link to determine if there
are results in the follow-on databases.

The follow-on databases, and the local database, are
also automatically selected on the Select Databases window. All subsequent
searches use the selected databases, until you reset the search databases
or end your session.